{"id":499604,"date":"2026-06-04T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=499604"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:14:21","slug":"asvel-close-to-landing-sylvain-francisco-on-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/asvel-close-to-landing-sylvain-francisco-on-multi-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"ASVEL close to landing Sylvain Francisco on multi-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>Sylvain Francisco<\/b> is moving closer to <span class=\"s1\"><b>ASVEL Villeurbanne<\/b><\/span>. According to <span class=\"s1\"><b>BasketNews<\/b><\/span>, both sides are in advanced talks, with negotiations now entering the final stages over a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The French guard is coming off a standout season with <span class=\"s1\"><b>Zalgiris Kaunas<\/b><\/span>, averaging <span class=\"s1\"><b>16.5 points, 6.5 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.0 steal<\/b><\/span> per game in EuroLeague, with a 19.2 PIR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Francisco finished second in the <span class=\"s1\"><b>EuroLeague MVP<\/b><\/span> voting and earned a spot on the <span class=\"s1\"><b>All-EuroLeague First Team<\/b><\/span>. His expected arrival would further underline ASVEL\u2019s ambitions for next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to BasketNews, the French club is in the final stages of talks with the Zalgiris Kaunas guard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":498217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,82],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-499604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Sylvain-Francisco-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499604"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=499604"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=499604"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=499604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}